quire
IPA: kwˈaɪr
noun
- One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
- (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
- A book, poem, or pamphlet.
- (archaic) A choir.
- One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
verb
- (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
- (intransitive) To sing in concert.
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Examples of "quire" in Sentences
- Preaching to the quire are we...
- A quire is a measurement of paper.
- The first step is to setup the quires.
- The outside is dominated by the quire tower.
- The leaves are unbound and are kept in loose quires.
- The number of the quires is often found in the margin.
- Several monumental brasses form the floor of the quire.
- The leaves are arranged in octavo eight leaves in quire .
- Anthony Salvin, took charge of the extensive restoration of the quire.
- The church is a plain building with a flat ceilinged single nave and a quire.